7 MAIL TRIBUNE, MedtW, Ore., Thursday, November 13, 1938
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Thete officers and other members of
Southern Oregon Mushroom club have been
busy gathering specimens for the exhibit
which the club will have during the annual
Chin-Up club hobby carnival Friday and
Saturday, November 14-15, at Girls' Com
munity club. Mrs. Clyde Minger is secretary
treasurer of the club, Fred Lawrence
(center) is show chairman and Marvin Traut
man is club president. The large clumps
of mushrooms are both of the honey variety,
and the four tubular shaped specimens are
commonly called "shaggy manes." Mr.
Trautman holds a smooth lepiota naucina.
Club members discourage the untutored
from picking this variety, since they closely
resemble one of the poisonous types. Fields
and wooded sections of Jackson county
abound in dozens of edible varieties which
are both delicious - and nutritious. Mr.
Lawrence, an authority on the subject,
works with both Dr. Alexander Smith of
the University of Michigan and Dr. Sluntz.
University of Washington, noted mycolo
gists in preparing material for publication.
Christmas Party
Plans Announcefd
By Women's Club
Plans for a Christmas party
were made Monday night at
the Scottish Rite "Women's
club meeting in the Masonic
temple. Date for the party is
December 15 and It will start
at 6:30 p.m. with a pot-luck
dinner. The husbands of the
members will be guests.
In charge of the arrange
ments are Mrs. Fred Graten,
chairman, and assisting her
will be Mrs. Ira Canfield,
Mrs. E. L. Klein, Mrs. J. A.
Grigsby, Mrs. Marshall Day.
A gift exchange for both, men
and women is planned.
The club is in charge of a
reunion dinner for the Scot
tish Kite men December 6.
Mrs. George Osier is chair
man of the dinner, with Mrs.
H. L. Alford assisting.
Council Official '
To Visit Lodge
Plans have been completed
for tlie visit here of Miss
Dolly Fulgham, great keeper
of records of the Great Coun
cil of California, Pocahontas
lodge. Miss Fulgham will visit
Weatonka council Friday, No
vember 14, at Redmand hall
on Apple street, at 8 p.m.
Miss Fulgham is on the ad
visory board arid will answer
questions pertaining to the
local lodge affiliating with
the California council.
Officers ask a full attend
ance of members. Members
are asked to take pies.
Cancel Meeting .
Past Presidents of the
Ladies' auxiliary to Crater
Lake aerie, Fraternal Order
of Eagles, has cancelled a
meeting scheduled for Friday
afternoon at the home of Mrs.
Charles Steele, 525 Pearl,
street. The cancellation is due
to illness, it was announced. I
Sunshine Girls
Plan Installation
At Pythian Hall
Newly elected officers of
Talisman Rosebud council,
Pythian Sunshine Girls; jun
ior auxiliary of the Pythian
Sisters temple in Medford,
will be installed at a ceremony
in the Pythian building start
ing at 8 o'clock this evening.
Members of Knights of
Pythias lodges, Pythian Sis
ters, their friends and in
terested persons are invited.
This is to be the first open
installation of the group.
Mrs. Edward Bostwick is
head of the girls order, which
meets each Thursday in the
Pythian building.
A reception will follow.
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Is it really low salaries that drive teachers into other
professions? Should the United States reorganize secondary
education? Is the military gaining more control of education
budgets than is healthy? Are there good ideas to be borrowed
from the Soviet Union about free; public education?
These Were some of the problems discussed at meetings
in Eugene and Salem last week which were attended by a
number of Medford educators and layman. One was the gov
ernor's conference on secondary education, and the second
was a meeting of the Oregon School Boards asspciation.
Mrs. Moore Hamilton, member of the Oregon State
Board of Education and a former school board member in
Medford, attended the governor's conference and part of
the association sessions, and came home with a head buzzing
with information and ideas. Potpourri urged her to pass
them along and since she is a trained reporter, Mrs. H. put
them into news stories which we are happy to print.
"I am convinced we can have satisfactory education
without any radical change in the .basic, comprehensive
high school, including a wide variety of vocational pro
grams," Dr. James B. Conant, . former president of Harvard
university, who is heading a national study of high schools,
told audiences in Eugene and Salem during the Oregon
School Boards association and the Governor's Conference
on Secondary Education.
The former U. S. Ambassador to the Federal Republic
of Germany frowned upon any move to copy European
systems in the United States, maintaining that to follow the
European pattern would necessitate a complete change of
the whole American philosophy.
"Local control of our public schools is a permanent
system," Dr. Conant declared, then cautioned that "Boards
must know the difference between policy making and ad
ministration." Specific recommendations for improving the secondary
(or high) schools in the American manner were made by
the speaker, who listed the elimination of the small high
school as the number one problem.
"Unless a high school has a graduating class of at least
100, that school is too small to offer a sufficiently diversi
fied curriculum to meet the needs of all its pupils and the
needs of our nation." Dr. Conant stated. "In this country,"
he noted, "about one third of the students are attending
high schools that are too small. Just under 35 per cent
in this state are attending high schools that are too small."
Dr. Conant listed as "false" the criticism in America,
pertaining to "frills" and "building costs." The criticism,
he maintained, can be reasonably answered only by exam
ination school by school but he told his audiences that he
had seen only a few extravagant.buildings in his tour of
the states. He urged taxpayers to realize that only a fraction
of school cost is going toward the amortization of construc
tion.
In his recommendations, Dr. Conant asked that students
be grouped according to ability, subject by subject, except
in the 12th grade social stitdies. Where he advised a mingling
of all groups. He urged the adoption of four years of Eng
lish in the high school with a top load of 100 pupils for each
English teacher and half the time devoted to English coriv
position, or one theme per week.
A full-time counsellor for every 250 students, four years
of one foreign language for the top 15 per cent, ho matter
how few enroll: four years of mathematics and three years
of science for the same group with the required English
and social studies, including 15 to 20 hours a week of home
work, were advised in the visitor's program.
Dr. Conant emphatically opposed the common practice
of teaching two years of one foreign language and two
years of another. He also disapproved of a four-year required
physical education program but avoided setting the amount
of PE to be taken.
Dr. Willard B. Spalding, chairman, division of educa
tion, Portland State college, at Governor's conference,
warned of the dangers lurking in the production of "captive
scientists."
"If people decide schools should be used as a tool of na
tional policy we are on our way to dictatorship," he stated.
"We must continue to oppose restriction and seduction
whether it is in the name of education or something else.
"Contrary to the basic tenets of our society, the mili
tary is gaining more control of budgets and we are threat
ened with ascendancy of the military control of civilian
life.
, "If we are to have peace in our time we must teach
pupils to seek ways in which man can be safe with himself
how to crowd and still be kind. The dangers come from
man himself, can he learn to control the machines he
devises?
"How to .become safe from each other is our greatest
challenge.
"If war comes, the dark ages of the future will make
the dark ages of the past seem like a pleasant interlude.
When man decides to kill man, there are no pleasant
methods."
The idea of public education is being challenged today,
Dr. Spalding said, urging his audience "not to let professional
educators decide whether your children be educated." '
Work at all levels is oriented in terms of service to the
state and learning is tied directly into service in Russia,
Dr. John R. Ludington, director, aid to state and local
schools branch, U. S. Office of Education, told the Govern
or's conference in making his report of his recent examina
tion of schools in the U.S.S.R.
Dr. Ludington pointed out that an evaluation of the
schools in Russia was difficult in view of the fact that a
Soviet leader may push a button and change the Course of
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Jefferson Pare nt-Teacher
association will hold its sec
ond meeting of the school
year Friday, November 14, in
the cafeteria of Jefferson
school. The meeting will con
sist of safety rules, and regu
lations and will be presented
by Kenneth Hulbert, princi
pal of the school, and Chief
of Police Charles P. Champ
lin, Jr. A question-and-answer
period will follow which will
allow parents to become ac
quainted with the safety laws
and precautions which are
necessary with regards to the
school program. .
The meeting will start at
2:30 p.m. with a conference
period with the teachers be
ginning at 2 p.m.
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New PTA Unit
To Be Formed '
A meeting to organize a
parent-teacher association for
Hoover school will be held
Friday, November 14. at 2:30
p.m. at the school. Since the
cafeteria and gymnasium are
still under construction, the
meeting will be held in the
library.
No program is planned and
the entire time will be given
over to organizational details.
Coffee will be served, and
baby sitting will be provided.
Calendar
To help provide children's clothing for families in heed,
the new Medford Junior Women's club has started a "cloth
ing pool." The club members work with the school nurses,
who distribute the clothing where it is most needed. Shown
here at the project headquarters at Lincoln school are (left
16 right) Mrs. John L. Holmes, chairman of the project, Mrs.
Martha Donahue and Mrs. Betty Love, school nurses. The
club members repair and put the donated clothing in order,
and to finance the cost of repair supplies, the club is giving
a benefit "food and fashion" show Monday, November 17.
at Mon Desir inn. Central Point. A buffet luncheon will be
served at 12:30 p.m. and in addition Mrs. Julie Tummers
of the inn will prepare a number of Hawaiian and other
foods for sampling. Town and Country shop. Eagle Point,
will show holiday fashions. Reservations for the event are
16 be made wilh Mrs. Holmes, SPring 2-8519, or Mrs. Larry
McConnell, SPring 2-9130.
USSR education within a few weeks.
Thp educational aim in the TTSJR nnnr ?o 4
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versatile, conscientious builders of the Communist society,
me American eaucator stated, this is being done, he main
tained, with a curriculum which is uniform for boys and
girls in physical education and evervthinjr oiso Sfhnni i
held six" days each week, schools are well staffed with
icac-uers, iu instructors in a scnool 01 900 pupils, and
equipment. Each pupil in a geography class, for example,
is supplied with a 14-inch globe.
Dr. Ludington described the Russians as apparently
happy, well fed and well clothed but commented that "good
education itself produces differences," adding that there
are no differences in Russia
"Our faith was renewed in the principles of American
education" after viewing the Russian educational system,
tne speaker declared.
"I could tell you much more," Mrs. H. added in a note
'For instance, that more teachers are leaving their jobs
because of behaviour problems in school that because of
lack of money to quote Dr. Raymond Lowe, University of
Oregon.' -u.b.
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deep and six inches apart.
Enrollment Open
For Dance Class
Couples interested in I be
ginners square dance class
may still enroll in a class
sponsored by the Bellview
Grange in Ashland, Floyd
Workman, Medford caller, has
announced.
The class will be held each
Friday between 8 and 10 p.m
and will be completed in time
that dancers may attend the
second annual Southern Ore
gon Square Up at Southern
Oregon college January 31
and February 1, he said.
Calendar notireg and new for
the society section of The Mail
Tribune must be submitted in
writing and deadline for the Sun
day edition is 1 n.m. Friday. Dead
line for the weelcly calendar is 9
a.m.. of the day for publication and
for -week day news is i pjn. the
day before publication.
Thursday:
7 p.m. - Medford Altrusa
club, Ping's Gardens.
7 p.m. - Back to School
Night, McLoughlin , Junior
High school.
- 7:30 p.m. - AAUW Interior
Decoration Study group, home
or Mrs. A. A Johannson. 2133
Dellwood avenue.
8 p.m.- Past Noble Grands'
club, Olive Rebekah lodge,
Oiris Community club.
8 p.m. - Hammond Orsan
society, Purucker Music
house.
8 p.m. - Phoenix Thursdav
club, home of Mrs. Michael
Popow, 3744 Calhoun road.
8 p.m. Reames chaDter.
Order of the Eastern Star.
Medford Masonic temple.
Friday:
12:30 p.m. - Medford Fiftv
Plus club, Pythian hall.
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